Wichita eagle., 1887-06-19
PEERLESS PRINCESS.
WichitaWith the Measured Tread
Of a Giant Marches
On to Victory, Her United Host
Passing In Review Prepara-
tory to Greater Victory.
An Unimpeachable Witness Tells the
Story of Marvellous Prosperity
Facts, Figures and Comments.


The rapid advancement of Wichita in the
last few years is not only surprise to PEG
pie living at distance, but is also a sur.
prise to those of her own people who have
not given the matter careful thought. The
growth of this city has not been spasmodie
like the flash of meteor across the TRINA
ment of the business world, but its onward
march is steady and sure, like the
measured tread of giant. The gallant
hosts who have fought under the banner
containing the one inscription Wichita, have
stood shoulder to shoulder like disciplined
army. They have not captured fortiflca-
tions by heroic charges to be driven back
by the first rally of opposing forces, but
have in every instance advanced beyond
the captured forts and from
their own constructed forti-
fications, the constantly increasing and
solid phalanx has held every inch OF
ground, and the victorious flags when once
planted have remained to mark the terri
tory as belonging to Wichitas domain.
| Grand as have been the achievements OF
this people, which has now the admiration
of innumerable peoples, and while her per
manent garrisons are being stationed to
permanently hold the captured forts,
Wichita's invincible united army is
passing in review preparatory to Still
greater conquests. To the south and west
of us is a grand territory, an empire OF
itself, whose enterprising people will wei
come with acclamations Of JOY the advanc'
ing hosts of the Peerless Princess of the
Plains. A territory larger than France
with her thirty eight millions of people,
with her magnificent Paris with two mil
lions of people and her great Lyons and
Mersails, each cities of more than three
hundred thousand people. That Wichits
in four years has gone from village Of
eight thousand to forty thousand people
and whose assessed valuation has been ii
the years named, one million, two million
four million. eight million, and record Of
three thousand buses erected in little more
than year, are all matters Of history
These things are indeed marvellous, but the
future contains possibilities, certainties, il
we remain united in our efforts, fol
Wichita which will eclipse in grandure al
former achievements What these things
are many of our people know; the world
will know them as they are fully consum
ated.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
To the Doubling Thomas Whe
Re side in the Eastern States
In the Annual Encyclopedia, issued by
D. Appleton g. Co., at No. 1, 3 and 5 or
Bond street in New York City, being Vol
II of the series for the year 1885, which
aforesaid encyclopedia is published as 8
matter of history and not as an advertise
ment, there are the following facts recorded
on page 1870 which the inquiring reader
|
VOL. xI, PAGE 1S9, FOR YEAR 1886.
Wichita, capital of Sedgwick county
Kansas, on Big and Little Arkansas rivers
Gin southwestern part of the state, fifty miles
north of Indian territory. The town wa!
laid out in 1870, organized in 1871, pop
'ulation 500. In 1886 population was %,
1000. making third city in Kansas. WITCH
''ita has fourteen churches, six schools
$500 pupils, an academy, college, cour
"house, opera house capacity 700, six rail
'roads enter the city, five others in process
'of construction, seven banks aggregate
"capital 81, 600, 900, bank clearances $500,
1000 week. Exports flour, corn meal
wheat, corn, cattle, horses, hogs, mules
"sheep, dairy products, vegetables ant
fruits. The five grain elevators handl
"2, 0O0, 600 bushels per year. Flourin!
mills turn out $50 barrels of -four per day
There are three founderies and machiu
"shops, and two carriage and wagon works
"$2, 300, 900. 90 has been expended in new
buildings, public park, fair ground
water works and street railroad
The above is authoritive of d. Appleton
& Co, whose reputation is, to say the least
fair, are not swindlers and money getter
by false pretenses, as the firm claim to seel
diligently for interesting facts and claim
to state the truth.
Since the publication of Appleton's worl
Wichita has sustained her reputation il
matters of enterprise and in every line aut
avenue of legitimate business, trade, indus
try, has surpassed all the efforts ant
achievements of her former years, to III
great delight Of the people of the south
west and the chagrin Of the cities of Kan
sas which, in imitation of a hound tina
ticks the hands of his master, fawn at tn,
feet of Kansas City Gin the state of Mis-
souri,, which state in former years owed it
greatness to Tom Benton. JUSTICE.
General Fairchild, the Comnsnder-in
Chief of the Grand Army Of the Republic
expresses the feelings of every cid Unior